T-Mo is shutting down legacy Sprint wireline business so expect more layoffs. Their infrastructure is so old Deutsche Telekom has no interest in investing in wireline business in US since it would require complete overhaul as capex has been squeezed from wireline to upgrade wireless for years.
T is only interested in growing 5G market share.
They see AT&T & Lumen in enterprise space as too strong competitors to take on any longer so shutting down wireline and grooming wireless to Sprint’s fiber backhaul and metro assets is their best play. They waited too long for asset sale so now will leave all business customers high and dry.
So for all affected workers, need to look at market and you should all know it was coming no surprises. Tmo didn’t think this through, asset sale would have been better, now many of their business customers will flip their wireless to AT&T and Vz. Business customers better look for a vendor committed to investing in wireline enterprise.